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Agile tools. Which do you recommend? (Aside from JIRA)

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Joseph Pangan Senior Principal Consultant| Genpact Philippines Angeles City, Philippines, Philippines
What cheaper tool or software do you recommend for managing, monitoring and reporting agile development projects, epics, stories, sprints, backlogs?
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
Joseph -

If you have a co-located team, why not go "old school" with stickies on a whiteboard - that's the cheapest solution you could ask for!

Kiron
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1 reply by Joseph Pangan
Apr 15, 2019 8:29 PM
Joseph Pangan
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The basics almost always work.

Thanks Kiron.
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Drew Craig Sr. Agile & Product Coach| Vanguard Philadelphia, Pa, United States
Kiron brings up a great perspective. I just recently had a conversation with the team on the simplicity that could be garnered from using whiteboard and post-its.

I have a project where we are using Azure Dev Ops (ADO) which is a cloud version of Team Foundation Server (TFS). Works well. Comparible with Jira, though, ADO has a capacity functionality built-in.
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John Albaugh Senior Consultant, Owner| Work Reformation, LLC Lake City, Mi, United States
Joseph,

I concur with Kiron and Andrew if you have a co-located team regarding opting for a whiteboard if budget is a concern. In fact, using a whiteboard is my first step when training any new Agile teams regardless of methodology because understanding the tangible aspect trumps what any software can mimic.

If your team isn't co-located but you still need a budget friendly solution then I suggest Trello.

JIRA isn't really that expensive when it comes to project management platforms or tools unless your team size is in between tiers. How many teams or people are you looking to support?
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Joseph Pangan Senior Principal Consultant| Genpact Philippines Angeles City, Philippines, Philippines
Apr 15, 2019 8:05 AM
Replying to Kiron Bondale
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Joseph -

If you have a co-located team, why not go "old school" with stickies on a whiteboard - that's the cheapest solution you could ask for!

Kiron
The basics almost always work.

Thanks Kiron.
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Dilip Gundala Senior Solution Manager| Unisys Global Services India Bangalore, Karnataka, India
In our organization - we work on Servicenow platform and since all developers, testers are already having Servicenow logins, we enabled Agile Development plug-in on the platform. This is yielding good results for us in terms of planning, tracking and visibility of the ongoing work for all stakeholders.
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Priya Patra Delivery Director| Capgemini India Technology Services Ltd Mumbai, India
White boards and post its is the best

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